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> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 22:30 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 10/01/2012 07:27 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
>>> Are there plans to add xattr support to tar?
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>> I don't have any, no.
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> Paul, Sergey, Linux extended attributes are quite important file system
> feature -- at least users of POSIX A
> I've held off through a combination of wanting to stay as close as
> possible to the upstream sources and an apparently erroneous assumption
> that with several xattr patches floating around that eventually one
> would be merged.
>
> What's the story here? Are there plans to add xattr support to
